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Qlik Enterprise Manager - schedule question

Jon_Donker — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:16:34 GMT

Hi Team,

I am looking at migrating our QR schedules via pipelines for different environments. When I export out the QR server via api and look at the schedules; I see the schedules are set up like this:

{ "name": "DEV_S004_GCS_DLA", "command_id": 25, "schedule": "0 1 * * * *", "command_requests": { "cleanlogs_req": { "server": {}, "task": {}, "fts": {} }, "logfilerollover_req": {}, "execute_req": { "task": "", "operation": "EXECUTE_OPERATIONS_BOTH", "flags": "FRESH" }, "stoptask_req": { "task": "" } }, "task": "DEV_T222_DL_LENDING_DLA", "is_local_time": true }

In the "schedule" section - it looks like a cron; but it has six variables instead of the expected five. Can you please inform me what these different variables mean?

Re: Qlik Enterprise Manager - schedule question

marksouzacosta — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:17:40 GMT

Hi @Jon_Donker ,

Great question! I believe the schedule format you're seeing is a cron expression, but it uses the Quartz cron format rather than the standard Unix cron format. The key difference is that Quartz cron has 6 fields instead of 5, with seconds as the first field.

Here's the field breakdown:

Position Field Allowed Values 1 Seconds 0-59 2 Minutes 0-59 3 Hours 0-23 4 Day of month 1-31 5 Month 1-12 or JAN-DEC 6 Day of week 1-7 or SUN-SAT

So, for your example schedule "0 1 * * * *":

0 = at second 0
1 = at minute 1
* = every hour
* = every day of the month
* = every month
* = every day of the week

Full reference:
https://help.qlik.com/en-US/compose/December2024/Content/ComposeDWDL/Main/DW/Cron%20Format%20and%20Examples/cron_format_and_example.htm

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Mark Costa

Re: Qlik Enterprise Manager - schedule question

Jon_Donker — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:10:10 GMT

Thanks Mark.

I worked it out after a bit of experimenting. It is "Year" for the once off runs in Qlik Replicate.

Eg:

{ "name": "Test", "command_id": 25, "schedule": "30 15 7 1 * 2026", "command_requests": { "cleanlogs_req": { "server": { }, "task": { }, "fts": { } }, "logfilerollover_req": { }, "execute_req": { "task": "", "operation": "EXECUTE_OPERATIONS_BOTH", "flags": "FRESH" }, "stoptask_req": { "task": "" } }, "task": "EIT_T002_OB_RFSB_ACCT_02", "enabled": false }

Re: Qlik Enterprise Manager - schedule question

marksouzacosta — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:57:33 GMT

Great! Thanks for sharing @Jon_Donker .

I missed the right context of the question. It is on Qlik Replicate....... my bad.
I'll mark your answer as solution.

Thank you,

Mark Costa